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Beautiful Large Forest Cabin 1.5 Miles North of Custer/13 Acre

My property is called Elk Valley because it is located on a secluded ridge 100 yards from the Black Hills National Forest. I have a small valley or meadow where Elk, Deer and Wild Turkey live. The Elk come in from the National Forest and water at my pond about 75 yards behind my large 4000 sq ft 'cabin.' A private service road connects the house and land to Elk Valley Road, which is right off of SD Hwy 89 or 'Sylvan Lake Road' a historic Hwy that continues up to Sylvan Lake Lodge, Crazy Horse Monument and Mount Rushmore.
Mount Rushmore is 20 minutes from Elk Valley, Crazy Horse monument is only 5 minutes away. Elk Valley is a magnificent place, secluded yet minutes away from Custer and easy to locate. Mornings are especially beautiful at this unique place which has a spiritual quality.
Link to Virtual Tour here: http://lisaduncan.smugmug.com/photos/swfpopup.mg?AlbumID=22887047&AlbumKey=RfZ97H
Keywords: secluded large cabin on 13 acres next to national forest w/horse corral, has small pond, beautiful meadow

Beautiful Large Forest Cabin 1.5 Miles North of Custer/13 Acre

My property is called Elk Valley because it is located on a secluded ridge 100 yards from the Black Hills National Forest. I have a small valley or meadow where Elk, Deer and Wild Turkey live. The Elk come in from the National Forest and water at my pond about 75 yards behind my large 4000 sq ft 'cabin.' A private service road connects the house and land to Elk Valley Road, which is right off of SD Hwy 89 or 'Sylvan Lake Road' a historic Hwy that continues up to Sylvan Lake Lodge, Crazy Horse Monument and Mount Rushmore.
Mount Rushmore is 20 minutes from Elk Valley, Crazy Horse monument is only 5 minutes away. Elk Valley is a magnificent place, secluded yet minutes away from Custer and easy to locate. Mornings are especially beautiful at this unique place which has a spiritual quality.
Link to Virtual Tour here: http://lisaduncan.smugmug.com/photos/swfpopup.mg?AlbumID=22887047&AlbumKey=RfZ97H
Keywords: secluded large cabin on 13 acres next to national forest w/horse corral, has small pond, beautiful meadow

Beautiful Large Forest Cabin 1.5 Miles North of Custer/13 Acre

Beautiful Large Forest Cabin 1.5 Miles North of Custer/13 Acre

My property is called Elk Valley because it is located on a secluded ridge 100 yards from the Black Hills National Forest. I have a small valley or meadow where Elk, Deer and Wild Turkey live. The Elk come in from the National Forest and water at my pond about 75 yards behind my large 4000 sq ft 'cabin.' A private service road connects the house and land to Elk Valley Road, which is right off of SD Hwy 89 or 'Sylvan Lake Road' a historic Hwy that continues up to Sylvan Lake Lodge, Crazy Horse Monument and Mount Rushmore.
Mount Rushmore is 20 minutes from Elk Valley, Crazy Horse monument is only 5 minutes away. Elk Valley is a magnificent place, secluded yet minutes away from Custer and easy to locate. Mornings are especially beautiful at this unique place which has a spiritual quality.
Link to Virtual Tour here: http://lisaduncan.smugmug.com/photos/swfpopup.mg?AlbumID=22887047&AlbumKey=RfZ97H
Keywords: secluded large cabin on 13 acres next to national forest w/horse corral, has small pond, beautiful meadow

Overview

Details

cabin

4,000
sq. ft.

Sleeps

17

Bedrooms

5

Bathrooms

3

Minimum Stay

3 nights

About the property

Cabin, 6 bedrooms + Den, 3 Baths, (Sleeps 17)

My property is called Elk Valley because it is located on a secluded ridge 100 yards from the Black Hills National Forest. I have a small valley or meadow where Elk, Deer and Wild Turkey live. The Elk come in from the National Forest and water at my pond about 75 yards behind my large 4000 sq ft 'cabin.' A private service road connects the house and land to Elk Valley Road, which is right off of SD Hwy 89 or 'Sylvan Lake Road' a historic Hwy that continues up to Sylvan Lake Lodge, Crazy Horse Monument and Mount Rushmore.

Mount Rushmore is 20 minutes from Elk Valley, Crazy Horse monument is only 5 minutes away. Elk Valley is a magnificent place, secluded yet minutes away from Custer and easy to locate. Mornings are especially beautiful at this unique place which has a spiritual quality.

About Tim Wilka

I am 62 years old, semi-retired, two adult children. I graduated from O'Gorman HS in 1973, Univ. of Notre Dame in 1977, and USD School of Law in 1983; I love spending time in Custer, South Dakota at Elk Valley, it has a spiritual aspect to it that can only be experienced by going there.

Tim Wilka purchased this cabin in 2006

Why Tim Wilka chose Custer

It was built to be my retirement home where I can keep my horses. Custer County is the most beautiful county in the Black Hills--and that means maybe in South Dakota. It is a tourist town of 2,000 people that services the entire USA and still remaims small and where you want to move to and either retire or raise a family. Custer has 12 churches.

What makes this cabin unique

It is near everything in the Black Hills; It is comfy, restful, and the land is as beautiful as it gets; I have an exercise room, a steam shower, foosball, pingpong, outdoor activities, just about anything you want to do-like camping or making a bonfire in the back yard.

Great Christmas in a GREAT place!

This place was perfect for my family and friends who enjoyed having Christmas here and appreciated we could include our furry dog friends as they are family too! The game room was fun to have and all really enjoyed that. The kitchen was really nice for preparing meals and the fireplace was awesome for our stockings and kept us warm at our stay there. Lots of room and good to separate kids who needed naps and lots of room to spread out. Really beautiful in the snow!

Custer Stay

Property was in a great location for making it a home base for all that we wanted to do while in southern Black Hills. TV and internet stopped working after the first day. House was good, spacious, good for a large group.

Submitted: Oct 26, 2017

Stayed: October 2017

Source: VRBO, from HomeAway

Owner's Response: Virginia was a very nice guest but I have to disagree with her about my TV and wireless. I have always provided wireless and I did not know she could not access it. I wish she would have called and I could have given her the password which is located on the back of the router. The TV has always worked but the remote simply needed a new battery. I am at Elk Valley right now and the TV is on

Perfect for a large group of people

All of our bridal party stayed at his beautiful cabin in preparation for our wedding at Sylvan Lake. There were 13 adults and 5 children and we still had plenty of space to spread out. We had 9 girls getting ready at one time in the living room/kitchen and it was not overcrowded. The location is phenomenal, the house is immaculate, comfortable and well laid out. Tim was wonderful and easy to work with, upfront and extremely accommodating. Thank you for letting us stay at your beautiful "cabin" for our very special day!